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Sep 08 2015
News
Pope Francis Announces Measures to Simplify Marriage Annulments
Pope Francis announced new procedures on Tuesday to make it easier for Roman Catholics to obtain marriage annulments, a change intended to streamline a process long criticized by many Catholics as too cumbersome, complicated and expensive.
New York Times (News)Sep 15 2021
News
The new Latino landscape
In New Hampshire, a Roman Catholic church where Irish and French Canadian immigrants used to worship now has the state’s largest Latino congregation. In the Deep South, a county in Georgia is one of the nation’s top 10 in diversity.
Hispanics accounted for over half of the nation’s population growth in the last decade. This is not just reflected in larger cities, but in mountain towns
NBC News (Online)May 24 2022
News
Dems' push to center abortion rights faces first test
Tuesday’s congressional runoff between two South Texas Latino Democrats with opposing views on abortion could shape how their party fares in November.
The big picture: Democrats bracing for a loss of the House majority in November are rallying voters nationally around fears the Supreme Court is about to overturn abortion rights — but in a general election, this message may not work as
AxiosJul 13 2021
Opinion
School Choice Is the Answer to Education Disputes
As Americans fight a very modern battle over ideological spin in public schools, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case rooted in earlier struggles over lesson content. The justices will decide whether Maine can continue to exclude religious schools from a program that pays private school tuition for students that live in places that don't have public high schools. Given the court's
ReasonApr 04 2023
Perspectives Blog
Biden Doesn’t Mention Christians After Nashville Shooting; Right-Rated Media More Likely to Highlight
In the aftermath of the March 27 Nashville Christian elementary school shooting by a reportedly transgender shooter that left six dead, there was clear bias by omission on display — not just in the media, but also from our president.
When past mass shootings took place inside religious institutions, President Joe Biden mentioned the victims’ religious beliefs and often mentioned hatred
Julie MastrineMay 27 2018
News
Ireland votes to repeal abortion ban in historic referendum
Friday’s vote paves the way for legal abortion in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
VoxFeb 24 2019
News
Pope Francis compares child sex abuse to human sacrifice
Pope Francis has promised concrete action to tackle child sex abuse at the end of a Roman Catholic Church summit on paedophilia.
BBC NewsNov 24 2020
Opinion
Raphael Warnock, Amy Coney Barrett, and Religious Tolerance
Senator Dianne Feinstein infamously sneered that “the dogma lives loudly in” Amy Coney Barrett during the hearings on the latter’s confirmation to an appeals court, and added, “and that’s of concern.” A lot of people, not just on the right and not just Barrett’s fellow Catholics, objected. But while there was a widespread sense that Feinstein had acted badly, not everyone was precise in
Ramesh PonnuruFeb 17 2021
News
Biden, Warnock, and the resurgence of the liberal Christian
Who defines what it means to be Christian in America? For the past five years it was white Evangelicals and Christian nationalism. While still a small movement, Democrats have begun to rejuvenate the influence of the Social Gospel.
When Mat Schmalz was coming of age in western Massachusetts decades ago, he took a year to volunteer for a Roman Catholic order in rural Oklahoma, helping to
Christian Science MonitorJan 14 2022
News
‘My Duty as a Parent’: Inside the Fight to Remove Sexualized Content From School Libraries
Something on television caught the attention of Stacy Langton, a mother of six living in northern Virginia, when she was cooking dinner for her family in mid-September 2021.
“Write a sex scene you wouldn’t show your mom; write an X-rated Disney scenario,” read the TV news reporter, showing prompts given to students of a writing class at a public high school in Hudson, Ohio.
“What
The Epoch Times